Margarita Nolasco Armas (20 November 1932 – 23 September 2008) was a Mexican ethnologist and anthropologist, who pioneered the study of the country's varied people from a cultural rather than national perspective and founded the new facility of the National Museum of Anthropology. She was one of the group of researchers known as "the magnificent seven of (Mexican) anthropology". She was awarded the Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Medal as well as the National Prize for Arts and Sciences for her work in history and philosophy.
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20 November 1932 Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico
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Died |
23 September 2008 (aged 75) Mexico City, Mexico
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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